All 13 Uses
prejudice
in
Profiles in Courage
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- Some are vulgar demagogues ....some are men of wealth who have purchased their position ....[some are] men of narrow intellect, limited comprehension, and low partisan prejudice......And still earlier a member of the Senate itself told his colleagues that "the confidence of the people is departing from us, owing to our unreasonable delays."†
Chpt 0.1
- In the words of Senator Albert Beveridge: A party can live only by growing, intolerance of ideas [brings its] death......An organization that depends upon reproduction only for its votes, son taking the place of the father, is not a political party, but a Chinese tong; not citizens brought together by thought and conscience, but an Indian tribe held together by blood and prejudice.†
Chpt 0.1
- It would be more comfortable to continue to move and vote in platoons, joining whomever of our colleagues are equally enslaved by some current fashion, raging prejudice or popularmovement.†
Chpt 0.1 *
- Local prejudices, said Hamilton, were to be forgotten on the Senate floor, else it would simply be a repetition of the Continental Congress where "the first question has been 'how will such a measure affect my constituents and ....my re-election.'†
Chpt 1.0
- The local prejudices which Hamilton had hoped to exclude only intensified, particularly as the Federalists of New England and the Jeffersonians of Virginia split along sectional as well as partisan lines.†
Chpt 1.0
- I think them all varieties in a peculiar species of our race exhibiting a combination of talents and good moral character with passions and prejudices calculated to defeat their own objects and embarrass their friends.†
Chpt 1.2
- He denied the duty of elected representatives "to be palsied by the will of their constituents"; and he refused to achieve success by becoming what he termed a "patriot by profession," by pretending "extraordinary solicitude for the people, by flattering their prejudices, by ministering to their passions, and by humoring their transient and changeable opinions."†
Chpt 1.2
- It will require manly efforts, sir, and they must expect to meet with prejudices that will assail them from every quarter.†
Chpt 2.5
- The public, when aroused and excited by passion and prejudice, is little better than a wild beast.†
Chpt 3.6
- When he spoke in Yazoo County, the stronghold of his opposition, the Yazoo City Herald reported that like "the lion at bay," he "conquered the prejudices of hundreds who had been led to believe that his views on certain points were better adapted to the latitude of New England than to that of Mississippi."†
Chpt 3.7
- 207 An organization that depends upon reproduction only for its votes, son taking the place of the father, is not a political party, but a Chinese tong; not citizens brought together by thought and conscience, but an Indian tribe held together by blood and prejudice.†
Chpt 4.10
- The case, he later noted in his autobiography, was one of the "most exhausting and fatiguing cases I ever tried, hazarding a popularity very hardly earned, and incurring popular suspicions and prejudices which are not yet worn out."†
Chpt 4.10
- Some of them may havebeen actually advancing the long-range interests of their states in opposition to the shortsighted and narrow prejudices of their constituents; but some of them were not.†
Chpt 4.11
Definitions:
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(1)
(prejudice) bias that prevents objective consideration -- especially an unreasonable belief that is unfair to members of a race, religion, or other group
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(meaning too rare to warrant focus) law: In legal use, prejudice can mean harm or to cause harm. Additionally, it has a very specific meaning when seen in the form without prejudice or with prejudice. Without prejudice means that a lawsuit or proceeding ended without legal conclusions. In a civil case, that means a case could be re-filed in the future as though the proceeding never happened. With prejudice means the lawsuit or proceeding was dismissed and cannot be re-filed by the plaintiff with the same claim.